Gemma Spike
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15,259 appearances
32 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard yesterday
Gemma Spike’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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All your life.
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You're so mature, you're so smart.
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At the time, I think it feels like an amazing compliment.
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You know, you're being accepted as as one of the adults.
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You're so grown up.
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The thing is when adults think of you as mature, they stop giving you the grace that you should receive as a kid.
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The kind of grace that is important whilst you are learning, and the kind of grace that is important when you don't know better.
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And they start.
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Too soon they start assigning adult responsibilities to you, particularly emotional responsibilities that you're just not ready for yet.
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And you shouldn't have to be ready for.
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Kind of comorbidity to being a good girl is often being parentified or made to take care of your family way earlier than as usual.
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We can also see how this has ties to being the eldest daughter as well.
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It's all connected.
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As children, they
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You should be free to express how you feel openly and loudly, rather than through the lens of what we think adults would like from us.
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That is one of the best parts about being a kid.
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And when you don't have that freedom, because somebody has started to see you as this good girl, this good kid, this mature kid.
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you lose out.
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You become a mature version of yourself much earlier on.
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And we know this impacts women and girls a whole lot more.
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